A month ago, Herman Cain edged out Barack Obama among likely voters in Rasmussen’s poll, 43/41. Last week, after the initial allegations of sexual-harassment complaints surfaced, Cain trailed Obama by five points, 43/38. Today, after ten days of allegations and the response from the Cain campaign, Obama now beats Cain by eleven points:

Businessman Herman Cain is losing ground in a hypothetical Election 2012 matchup against President Obama.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters finds Obama earning 48% support to Cains 37%. Eleven percent (11%) prefer some other candidate, while five percent (5%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.) …

It’s not difficult to see where Cain has lost ground when looking at the crosstabs. In October, he had a six-point lead among men and only a 4-point deficit with women. Obama now ties Cain among men and leads Cain by twenty-one points among women, 52/31. That’s a huge shift, one that would exacerbate a gender-gap problem Republicans routinely face in presidential elections.

The news is worse among independents. In October, Cain had a 19-point lead, 48/29, over Obama. Today that has become a six-point deficit, 35/41. Support from self-described conservatives in this head-to-head matchup dropped eight points from 73% to 65%, and now Cain loses every income demographic in the survey.

If it appeared that Cain’s supporers were giving him the benefit of the doubt last week, this week looks as though voters have serious questions about either the allegations or Cain’s handling of the issue. The survey took place before the embarrassment of the false accusation leveled by Cain campaign manager Mark Block against Josh Kraushaar, too, which could mean that the campaign will have trouble reversing this momentum quickly.

Herman hired a good lawyer to refute and challenge these bimbos. The Rats know they have an issue so will have a new one to tout out every time news of the previous one dies down. Hopefully the public will get tired of this after a while and begin to look beyond the charge.

Gingrich is starting to look better to me. He admitted that sitting on the couch with Pelosi was “stupid”. Gingrich would eviscerate 0bama in a debate. Most important of all, Gingrich is not Romney. That is just my opinion.

It makes me enraged. I’m sick up to here with this crap. Thin air accusations can bring a candidate down? Character assassinations can derail a candidacy? What decent person in their right mind would ever want to lead?

Then this country deserves what it gets if this isn’t stopped dead in its tracks THIS election cycle.

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posted on 11/09/2011 10:22:38 AM PST
by SueRae
(I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)

I wish folks would remember that Polls do not reflect reality when spun by the media but are tools for them to SHAPE reality...How about some polls about Obamas handling of the Economy, or unemployment? Nope you wont get those until AFTER the 2012 elections...

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posted on 11/09/2011 10:33:27 AM PST
by Nat Turner
(I can see NOVEMBER 2012 from my house....)

I’m not surprised. After two weeks of relentless vilification of Cain, the state-controlled media finally got the results it wanted. They hope to scare Republicans into nominating Slick Willard. After all, the poll does show him as “electable.”

We don't have a year to decide who we will run against zero...Herman is slowly losing the momentum with everyone but us. I like Herman Cain but this whole thing has shown that he is out of his league. His people have performed incompetently.

We don't have a year to decide who we will run against zero...Herman is slowly losing the momentum with everyone but us. I like Herman Cain but this whole thing has shown that he is out of his league. His people have performed incompetently.

Is there a way to find out whether this gal who was just outed yesterday really is a registered Republican (but has only donated to the DNC), and if so, when she registered as a Republican?

The media all knew the names of these women, and while the name was withheld from public scrutiny they assured us that these were extremely competent, successful, conservative/Republican, and credible people.

Now that we have a name, it has taken very little time to find out that this gal is heavy into democratic causes (including contributions to the DNC and fighting to have Elian Gonzales deported to Cuba) and in a job complaint at her next job claimed as “sexually explicit” an e-mail joke which, if the same as one that matches the description of the joke she objected to, had nothing sexual in it. IOW, hyper-hyper-sensitive and a cry-baby at work.

The public needs to see what the media has done - and why they can’t be trusted to tell an accurate story when the claims are anonymous.

Only Republican candidates. That is all the media will go after. If its a 'Rat they either ignore the allegations or actively work to discredit them (e.g., Bill Clinton).

This is just a foretaste. No matter who the 'Pub nominee is they are going to be savaged in a merciless and unprecedented manner by the media, all because they might run against The Almighty God Obama.

I know, it makes me sick how easy it is for the press to destroy a fine Christian man. If we let them do this to us, which will essentially lead to their choosing our candidate again, then we deserve what happens to this country. I just want to cry. I really, really hope we can overcome this but it’s really hard to keep believing some days.

Cindie

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posted on 11/09/2011 10:50:59 AM PST
by gardencatz
(I'm lucky enough to live, walk & breathe among heroes! I am the mother of a US Marine!)

They are doing to this guy what FOX and all the rest of the bastards did to Palin. GOD have vengeance on them all!! Of course the majority of the sheeple will fall for their crap again!! SOMETHING needs to be done and I think EVERY CONSERVATIVE WOMEN IN THIS COUNTRY SHOULD FILE A FAKE LAWSUIT ACCUSING CAIN OF harassment! THIS needs to be treated as a freakin joke and make the MediaWHORES LOOK LIKE THE KKK trying to lynch a black man!! WHERE ARE THE FREAKIN ADS showing a tree and a rope?? HELL BALLESS RNC!! Im so mad, Im spitting NAILS!! Im undecided on whom to vote for in our party, but this really pisses me off!! Palin redux!!! BASTARDS!!

Bachman was done in by other candidates they out performed her, Perry, who I was enthusiastic about, stumbled over his own tongue. Of course, whoever is left will be hit hard...that’s why we really don’t want a novice and that’s what Cain is. I know I’m gonna get slimmed but he simply is not ready for prime time...he just isn’t. And that has nothing to do with these ridicules allegations.

One thing that hasn’t changed and doesn’t appear will ever change is that we don’t really get to choose.

People candidates are going to be ignored or sandbagged before they are ever allowed to climb to the top.

Romney is next in line, they probably have an alternate in mind too. One of the reasons they were begging Christie was that they knew Romney wasn’t going to catch fire.

How they think Christie was qualified is amusing too.

Anyway, the writing is starting to be on the wall for Herman. They want him out and if he stays in things will get even worse for him. After awhile, even though people really like him, they will get tired of the turmoil.
This is why they keep it going. Already starting to happen.

Most of these people don’t even care anymore if what they say or who they drag out is totally false and phony. The elite R’s and D’s are going to circle the wagaons for the established picks.

For all of you happier than hell about this, don’t celebrate just yet. Your pick may be next.

He admitted that sitting on the couch with Pelosi was stupid. Then proceeded to put his foot firmly back into his mouth saying he believed in Globull Warming! Unreal. I like Newt. He is a sharp guy in many ways, and is likable, however he should have just made the above statement, and left it at that. Just my 2 cents :)

I saw freepers on here who said Governor Palin was “damaged goods” for YEARS. YEARS. I warned that they would use these tactics against other candidates. But no they didnt get it. Certain idiots thought this was just something that would happen to Governor Palin. I guess they thought this was unique to Sarah.

But this is one of the major reasons I wanted Sarah Palin to run. She has been through 3 years of fire and all the ammo is gone.

Don't you understand, they create the "ammo". What would stop them from coming up with people who would swear they had trysts with Palin on those long nights when Todd was gone. You may not believe it but others might. It would even be the same players. Rove would love the chance to slime Sarah and most of the Fox elite never liked her.

No one is immune from this style of political slime. The only question is, who will cave first.

Don’t you understand that the ammo loses it’s power? When a target hasn’t taken fire, it’s easy to see shot as being possibly fatal. But when you have been through a long series of fire, people tune out each and every shot taken.

Palin can look at a reporter who asks her about a “tryst” and say “Are you kidding me? You can do better.” and that would be the end of the story. Why? Because of all of the attacks that she has dealt with before.

I think Cain will come through this fine, but with Palin we were getting a known candidate. Cain still has people discovering who he is.

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